Cups insecure filter Lexmark Prospect Pro205 and scanning issues

[Guest]

I am a recent convert to Kubuntu after finally taking the plunge to run linux as my only OS.
Running Kubuntu 12.10 amd64 I have been having trouble getting the my printer working.

Installed the lexmark-inkjet-legacy-1.0-1.amd64.deb and the lexmark-scan-legacy-1.1-1.amd64.deb
packages from the Lexmark website to get the drivers working. In the printer settings I keep getting
an error:

File "/usr/local/Lexmark/v3/bin/printfilter" has insecure permissions (0100755/uid=1000/gid/=0).

I am unable to even print a test page.

Some research shows quite a few users getting this error. Following this link's suggestions I ran the following commands

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin/printfilter
sudo chgrp root /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin/printfilter

My output of ls -l /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin

sutur@Ragnar:~$ ls -l /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin
total 992
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root  bin  755469 Aug 16 09:35 lxhcp
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root  bin  110411 Aug 16 09:35 lxusb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sutur root 146921 Aug 16 09:35 printfilter

This is different from the link poster's output, and I still get the same error.

Scanning documents is also a pain, as I can no longer select scan to computer from my printer. I have to open scanlite,
wait for the program to list devices which sometimes takes a while, and then scan. Is there a way to save the device
as default?

Any help regarding these issues would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry if my formatting is not up to par. This is my first time posting to a help forum.

[oshunluvr]

It looks to me like your file permission/ownership are wrong.

Try:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin/*
sudo chown root:bin /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin/*

[osmosis]

Thank You. This works for me with a Lexmark Platinum Pro905 in Lubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17.

Bye.

It looks to me like your file permission/ownership are wrong.

Try:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin/*
sudo chown root:bin /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin/*